Anne Hollingsworth Price

Anne, Baroness Dőry de Jobaháza (née Anne Hollingsworth Price, formerly Anne, Princess Friedrich of Ardeck) (August 25, 1868[lower-alpha 1] – April 24, 1945) was an American heiress and actress who married into the European aristocracy.

Anne, Baroness Dőry-Jobaháza
Born
Anne Hollingsworth Price

(1868-08-25)August 25, 1868
Edgemoor, Delaware, U.S.
DiedApril 24, 1945(1945-04-24) (aged 76)
Austria
Spouse(s)
  • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Ardeck (1858–1902)
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    (m. 1890; died 1902)​
  • Baron József Döry-Jobaháza (1868–1954)
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    (m. 1904⁠–⁠1945)​
Children4

Early life

Anne was born on August 25, 1868 at Ellerslie Hall in Edgemoor, near Wilmington, Delaware.[lower-alpha 2] She was a daughter of oil magnate James Price II (1834–1904) and Sarah M. (née Harlan) Price (1832–1898).[4] Her brother, Samuel Harlan Price, was the wife of Susan Coleman Wells (later Mrs. Morris R. Stroud).[5] She was one of five sisters, who all married into the European nobility,[1] which included Margaret Plater Price (who in 1882 married Edmund, Baron Wucherer von Huldenfeld,[lower-alpha 3] who was tutor to Archduke Eugen and Lord of the Manor of Gleinstätten),[6] Susan Harlan Price (who in 1885 married Alexandru Socec,[lower-alpha 4] a general in Romanian Army),[7] Matilda Louise Price (who married, in 1883, Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza,[lower-alpha 5] the King's Chamberlain who adopted their son-in-law Heinrich Thyssen),[8] and Sallie Mae Price (who, in 1891, married Maximillian, Baron von Berg[lower-alpha 6]).[4][9]

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Tatnall Price[lower-alpha 7] and Matilda Louise (née Sanderson) Price,[10] and her maternal grandparents were Susan Preston (née Fairlamb) Harlan and Samuel Harlan Jr., of Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., shipbuilders in Wilmington (who built Yampa, which was purchased by German Emperor William II[11][12][13]).[14] Harlan and Hollingsworth was acquired by Bethlehem Steel in 1904, although her grandfather Harlan had died in 1883 in Vienna.[10][15]

Anne and her five sisters all were "beautiful and charming belles of Wilmington and Philadelphia, where they made their debuts."[1] They spent a year in Europe with their parents, arriving in Vienna in the early 1880s. Matilda was the only daughter who ever returned to America.[1][lower-alpha 8] Reportedly, every time their father would return from his trip back to Philadelphia to manage the family business, one of his daughters would be engaged.[16]

Personal life

On December 17, 1890, Anne was married to Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Ardeck (1858–1902) in Dresden.[17] At the time of their wedding, the Prince, the eldest son of Maria von Hanau-Hořowitz and Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld,[18] was a Lieutenant of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the Prussian Army.[17] His father was a son of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (a daughter of Prince Louis William Geldricus Ernest of Bentheim and Steinfurt. Notwithstanding that his mother was a daughter of William II, Elector of Hesse and Princess Augusta of Prussia (a daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia), the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt regarded his parent's marriage as morganatic. Upon his parent's divorce in 1872, his mother and the children were styled Princess of Ardeck and Princes of Ardeck.[19]

Her mother died in Stuttgart in April 1892.[10] Prince Friedrich died on April 1, 1902 at Villa Wilhelmshöhe.[20]

Second marriage

On February 4, 1904, she married Hungarian magnate Baron József Döry de Jobaháza (1868–1954) in Mihályi (formerly the Kingdom of Hungary). He was a son of Baron Nicholas Miklós von Dőry de Jobaháza, Sr. and Baroness Mária von Horváth de Szürnyeg.[21] Together, they were the parents of four daughters (three of whom married titles),[16] including:[16]

  • Mária Jozefa Cecelia Ann Wilhelm Dőry (1904–1945), who died during World War II.[16]

In September 1904, her father died, also in Stuttgart. Anne and her husband's home was in Schloss Hody bei Galanta, Pressburger Comitate, Hungary.[1] In 1910, they acquired Schloss Johnsdorf in Szepes County, Hungary.[22][23]

In 1945, after the Russians pillaged Schloss Johnsdorf and carried off their daughter Mária, Anne and her husband fled to Austria where she died a month later, aged 80, on April 24, 1945 from "hardships suffered under the Russian occupation of Austria."[24] Their daughter died three days later.[24] Anne left her entire estate to her the Baron Döry-Jobaháza, except for $750 that was directed towards the care of her first husband's grave in Warmbrunn, Schleisen, Germany.[16] József died April 14, 1954 in Johnsdorf.[25]

See also

Notes
  1. Her date of birth has also been referenced as August 25, 1870.[1]
  2. In 1927, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda returned to the United States and rented "Ellerslie" so Fitzgerald could write.[2] They rented the mansion between 1927 to 1929 from owners William and John Sellers, founders of the nearby Edge Moor Iron Company. The 1842 home was demolished in 1973.[3]
  3. Edmund, Baron von Wucherer was the son of Peter, Baron von Wucherer and Bertha, Countess of Cerrini de Monte Varchi, Bohemia.[1]
  4. Alexandru Socec was the son of Jean V. Socec and Marie (Bayr) Socec of Romania.[1]
  5. Gábor, Baron Bornemisza was the son of Albert, Baron Bornemisza de Nagykozony and Countess Gabrielle Komis de Gonsz-Kaska.[1]
  6. Maximillian, Baron von Berg was the son of Gustavus, Baron von Berg.[1]
  7. Her father, James Price II, was one of thirteen children born to Matilda Louise (née Sanderson) Price by Joseph Tatnall Price. He was one of the three sons and one daughter of James Price (born at Still Pond Cross Roads, Kent County, Maryland in 1776), who married Margaret (née Tatnall) Starr, widow of Isaac Starr and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Lea Tatnall. James Price built a home on the Brandywine Walk, which ran on the west side of Market Street from Tenth to Sixteenth Street, for each of his four children.[1]
  8. Matilda, Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza returned to America in 1935 as a widow and settled in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her three daughters all married Europeans, including Prince Władysław Sapieha, a Polish prince (and son of Prince Władysław Leon Sapieha and Countess Elżbieta Konstancja Potulicka).[1]

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